Sorry, it stands for High Dynamic Range. Basically, you take two or more photos at different exposure levels and blend them together to provide a wider range of tones and contrast. It's very tricky to get it to look right, for instance, while the one of the garden looks about right for realism, there is a fairly obvious halo between the trees and the sky. I'm still trying to work on it because when it does work correctly, the effort becomes well worth while.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Looks like you had a lovely holiday Sister. Are the goannas aggressive at all, or do they leave you alone?

I regret not being able to take a photo of a snowflake since the ones falling here were not really large enough although I have been reading up on it and may try again next time if I can brave the cold long enough. However, the moon did poke its face out from the clouds long enough for me to get this;

For those interested, it was photographed hand held with a 400mm lens (200mm with a 2x converter attached), aperture of f/5.6, shutter speed 1/1000 sec, ISO 200. Then it was cropped and sharpened up afterwards in Photoshop.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.